Human Weapon - Netflix

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In the ultimate search for a Human Weapon, mixed martial artist
Jason Chambers and former football pro Bill Duff put their bodies on the
line as they train in the most lethal forms of combat.

Type: Documentary

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2007-07-20

Human Weapon - Directed-energy weapon - Netflix

A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon system that inflicts
damage at a target by emission of highly focused energy, including
laser, microwaves and particle beams. Potential applications of this
technology include anti-personnel weapon systems, missile defense
system, and the disabling of lightly armored vehicles or mounted optical
devices. In the United States, the Pentagon, DARPA, the Air Force
Research Laboratory, United States Army Armament Research Development
and Engineering Center, and the Naval Research Laboratory are
researching technologies like directed-energy weapons and railguns to
counter maturing threats posed by fast missiles such as ballistic
missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicles.
These systems of missile defense are expected to come online in the mid
to late-2020s or later. Russia, China, India, and the United Kingdom are
also developing directed-energy weapons. After decades of R&D,
directed-energy weapons are still very much at the experimental stage
and it remains to be seen if or when they will be deployed as practical,
high-performance military weapons.

Human Weapon - Iraq War - Netflix

During the Iraq War, electromagnetic weapons, including high power
microwaves, were used by the U.S. military to disrupt and destroy Iraqi
electronic systems and may have been used for crowd control. Types and
magnitudes of exposure to electromagnetic fields are unknown.